What a tremendous let down! All the messages they fed us throughout the episodes were crushed and smashed in such colossal proportions! Everything was for absolutely nothing! The growth in Michi that we were rooting for and actually observing, because she WAS growing as a person, all of it - down the drain!
My heart breaks for Nina. I can only imagine the infuriation I would feel if I were in his shoes and the pain and angst that come with it... Geez! And don't come at me with "This is real life" - no, it's not, wtf! I ain't wasting my free time watching this mess if I ain't hoping for a good, well-written conclusion! What an uff...
I apologize in a advance, but... what a cringe fest that was! I can't believe this has an 8.2 rating.... Are you kidding me?! The only thing I liked was Dean's face, but even that couldn't keep me going. I'm not familiar with Fluke's acting, but I cringed at almost every scene he was in. I'm pretty sure he was cringing at it himself, because his constant frowns were giving second-hand embarrassments left and right. My man looked scandalized every time a slight hint of intimacy was attempted by his poor love interest. If I were in Dean's shoes, I would've started looking for a different soulmate ASAP! This on its own killed whatever chemistry there was supposed to be between the leads, which killed all other reasons to continue watching this thing.
In my own opinion (I must clarify it's indeed just an opinion) other series deserve a lot more recognition and certainly much higher ratings than this one. I'm starting to think something's not right.
I have watched the BL series led by this director. Two of them are my absolute favorites in this genre ("About Youth" and "HIStory3: Make Our Days Count," and yes, we all know about a particular ending, but the entire work, despite this, is just phenomenal), and I only found out now that Tsai Mi Chieh was behind both of these, and it actually made sense to me!
What I love about her work is how real and fleshed out the characters are under her supervision. Their mannerisms, facial expressions, smiles, body language, and intonation - everything works perfectly and draws me in emotionally, making me feel what they are feeling!
I hope there will be more from this amazing director, and I would love more BLs if possible. I think her strength definitely lies there :)
I love it, I have watched it 3 times already and I still can't get over Togawa, he's just like a... fox, I don't know how to explain it. Lovely series!
Absolutely ADORED the whole thing! Recently I've been searching for dramas that are maximum 10 episodes, because a lot of the series out there start to drag at some point if they have more. Yet, I found myself wanting more from this one <3
1. Superb acting from the actors. 2. All the main characters are lovely! The FL and ML chemistry is off the charts! 3. I found myself caring for almost all of the supporting cast as well. 4. I laughed a lot, this doesn't happen often with dramas for me, so I'm impressed! 5. I can't agree with some comments about how the ML is chauvinistic. Both the FL and the ML have polar opposite extreme views, and I would say the FLs were even more extreme. There is a whole arc for the ML and why he became like this. Yet, despite his obvious irritation, he remained respectful to the women around him even if they made their own rude comments. And what is it with some people saying he had no character growth? I saw plenty from both him and the FL. 6. Yeo Mi Ran was a freaking badass, LOVED her! 7. The bromance was on another level completely (I am not complaining at all btw). 8. Petition for more long haired dudes in dramas, please! ^^
The only thing I would've loved to see more of in this drama is that some people deserved their asses to be sued for defamation!
Overall I loved this drama and I recommend it wholeheartedly. Enjoy!
I watched the whole thing and I have some stuff to say. I'll start with the good ones: Amazing cast, amazing chemistry, amazing start of the drama. Yes - start.
Now the complaints: This drama seems to want to touch on some very sensitive topics about the current situation in Korea about home owning, debt, family issues, SA and of course- marriage. But after the strong start it falls flat on many of the subjects. In the beginning we as an audience are given the promise of a couple who is blunt with each other about who thinks what. We are also given the promise of some very well shaped and complex characters that act like the adults they should be. Well... all of these promises went down the drain in the second half of the series. I don't understand how these great characters can transform into these boring and annoying people. At the end of the drama I was rolling my eyes at almost every person and their god awful decision making. And I have a very big problem with the sacrifice the ML made in the last episode. He lost something he truly cared about and the FL had the audacity to smile at him and to not even acknowledge it when he said it to her. Of course because the ML has to be love dumb he magically forgets about the whole ordeal. I'm not even going to start on the side couples, because I will end up writing a book.
Such great potential, absolutely ruined by trivial, exhausted tropes! I truly was enjoying it, but I can't close my eyes at these things. There is such a thing as COMMUNICATION, use it for the love of God for creating good, believable scripts, I'm starting to beg about this in dramas!
PS. This is a very personal opinion, but I just have to vent about something! Why, oh why, did he have to get the "mushroom" hairstyle? I was thinking the whole time "Finally there is a ML I can see his face!" Also changing it in the middle of the series also changes the already built perception of that specific character. He has a lovely face, why suddenly hide half of it... ugh...
I'm surprised "The Eighth Sense '' is his first acting title. He did truly masterfully. The role of a boy, coming to the big city, at first shy, but then showing the growth of his personality, was very well done. I am so glad there was not even a bit of overreacting, instead we saw a version of a real life self aware young man, falling in love, understanding others motives and not giving up, despite the hardships. The sass was also on point and honestly a really fresh take of a person who won’t let others walk over him, all of which was perfectly presented by Oh Jun Taek. I wish this young actor a successful career and I'm hoping to see him in other great dramas and movies. Well done and good luck!
Love the series. It has the potential to be one of the greatest BLs up to date BUT I just sincerely hope what Jae Won's therapist told him today wasn't foreshadowing. I REALLY hope they won't pull off something like this on us. How they tricked me today in the 7th episode was way too realistic and I actually was starting to believe it...
My heart breaks for Nina. I can only imagine the infuriation I would feel if I were in his shoes and the pain and angst that come with it... Geez! And don't come at me with "This is real life" - no, it's not, wtf! I ain't wasting my free time watching this mess if I ain't hoping for a good, well-written conclusion! What an uff...
In my own opinion (I must clarify it's indeed just an opinion) other series deserve a lot more recognition and certainly much higher ratings than this one. I'm starting to think something's not right.
What I love about her work is how real and fleshed out the characters are under her supervision. Their mannerisms, facial expressions, smiles, body language, and intonation - everything works perfectly and draws me in emotionally, making me feel what they are feeling!
I hope there will be more from this amazing director, and I would love more BLs if possible. I think her strength definitely lies there :)
1. Superb acting from the actors.
2. All the main characters are lovely! The FL and ML chemistry is off the charts!
3. I found myself caring for almost all of the supporting cast as well.
4. I laughed a lot, this doesn't happen often with dramas for me, so I'm impressed!
5. I can't agree with some comments about how the ML is chauvinistic. Both the FL and the ML have polar opposite extreme views, and I would say the FLs were even more extreme. There is a whole arc for the ML and why he became like this. Yet, despite his obvious irritation, he remained respectful to the women around him even if they made their own rude comments. And what is it with some people saying he had no character growth? I saw plenty from both him and the FL.
6. Yeo Mi Ran was a freaking badass, LOVED her!
7. The bromance was on another level completely (I am not complaining at all btw).
8. Petition for more long haired dudes in dramas, please! ^^
The only thing I would've loved to see more of in this drama is that some people deserved their asses to be sued for defamation!
Overall I loved this drama and I recommend it wholeheartedly. Enjoy!
I'll start with the good ones: Amazing cast, amazing chemistry, amazing start of the drama. Yes - start.
Now the complaints: This drama seems to want to touch on some very sensitive topics about the current situation in Korea about home owning, debt, family issues, SA and of course- marriage. But after the strong start it falls flat on many of the subjects. In the beginning we as an audience are given the promise of a couple who is blunt with each other about who thinks what. We are also given the promise of some very well shaped and complex characters that act like the adults they should be. Well... all of these promises went down the drain in the second half of the series. I don't understand how these great characters can transform into these boring and annoying people. At the end of the drama I was rolling my eyes at almost every person and their god awful decision making. And I have a very big problem with the sacrifice the ML made in the last episode. He lost something he truly cared about and the FL had the audacity to smile at him and to not even acknowledge it when he said it to her. Of course because the ML has to be love dumb he magically forgets about the whole ordeal. I'm not even going to start on the side couples, because I will end up writing a book.
Such great potential, absolutely ruined by trivial, exhausted tropes! I truly was enjoying it, but I can't close my eyes at these things. There is such a thing as COMMUNICATION, use it for the love of God for creating good, believable scripts, I'm starting to beg about this in dramas!
PS. This is a very personal opinion, but I just have to vent about something! Why, oh why, did he have to get the "mushroom" hairstyle? I was thinking the whole time "Finally there is a ML I can see his face!" Also changing it in the middle of the series also changes the already built perception of that specific character. He has a lovely face, why suddenly hide half of it... ugh...